A power supply device includes an SMPS circuit including an electric transformer having first and second stages, the SMPS circuit generating a second stage output voltage using the electric transformer, a power switcher receiving and switching the second stage output voltage to generate a first power voltage having logic high and low levels in one frame, and a PWM controller controlling a voltage level of the second stage output voltage by providing a control signal to the first stage. The first power voltage is simultaneously provided to a plurality of pixels, and a magnitude of the logic low level is increased or decreased according to a magnitude of an image load, where the magnitude of the image load is dependent on a color and a gradation level of an image to be displayed in a next frame.
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1. An organic light emitting display device comprising: a display panel having a plurality of pixels; a scan driver configured to sequentially provide a scan signal to the pixels via a plurality of scan-lines; a data driver configured to provide a data signal to the pixels via a plurality of data-lines based on the scan signal; a first power supply device configured to generate a first power voltage to simultaneously provide the first power voltage to the pixels, the first power voltage having a logic high level and a logic low level in one frame, a magnitude of a logic low level of the first power voltage being determined according to a magnitude of an image load, wherein the magnitude of the image load is determined by a color and a gradation level of an image to be displayed in a next frame; a second power supply device configured to generate a second power voltage to simultaneously provide the second power voltage to the pixels, the second power voltage having a logic high level and a logic low level in one frame; and a timing controller configured to control the scan driver, the data driver, the first power supply device, and the second power supply device.
2. The device of claim 1 , wherein a period of a logic high level corresponds to a period in which the pixels are sequentially scanned, and a period of a logic low level corresponds to a period in which organic light emitting diodes of the pixels simultaneously emit light.
3. The device of claim 2 , further comprising: a memory unit configured to provide a pixel information signal to the first power supply device.
4. The device of claim 3 , wherein the pixel information signal includes information related to the color and the gradation level of the image to be displayed by the pixels in a next frame.
5. The device of claim 4 , wherein the first power supply device generates a PWM signal based on the pixel information signal, and wherein the magnitude of a logic low level of the first power voltage is controlled based on an on-duty ratio of the PWM signal.
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